swap_horiz J.G.A. Pocock Alternatives

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Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga was a Dutch historian renowned for his anthropological approach to studying medieval culture. His seminal...

Cultural 20TH Century Medieval Dutch

9.2 Excellent

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Marc Bloch

Marc Bloch was a prominent French historian of the 20th century. He is best known for his foundational work in Annales S...

French Social 20TH Century Medieval

9.2 Excellent

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Fernand Braudel

Fernand Braudel was a prominent 20th-century French historian known for his work on long-term historical processes. He d...

French Mediterranean 20TH Century Economic

9.2 Excellent

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Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg is a prominent Italian historian specializing in the early modern period. He pioneered microhistory, exam...

Italian Cultural 20TH Century Early Modern

9.2 Excellent

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Quentin Skinner

Quentin Skinner is a prominent British historian specializing in early modern political thought. His work focuses on the...

Intellectual 20TH Century British Early Modern

9.2 Excellent

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James McPherson

James McPherson is a prominent American historian specializing in the 20th and 21st centuries. He’s particularly renowne...

Military American 20TH Century Civil War

9.2 Excellent

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Eric Foner

Eric Foner is a leading American historian specializing in the Reconstruction era and the history of slavery. His work s...

American 20TH Century Political Reconstruction

9.2 Excellent

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Natalie Zemon Davis

Natalie Zemon Davis was a Canadian-American historian whose work focused on social and cultural life in early modern Eur...

American Social Cultural 20TH Century

9.1 Excellent

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Bernard Bailyn

Bernard Bailyn was an American historian of colonial and revolutionary America. His research examined the political idea...

American Intellectual 20TH Century Colonial

9.1 Excellent

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David Brion Davis

David Brion Davis was an American historian of slavery and abolition and a longtime Yale professor. His three-volume stu...

American Intellectual 20TH Century Transatlantic

9.1 Excellent

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Richard Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter was an American historian of political and intellectual life who taught at Columbia University. His b...

American Intellectual 20TH Century Political

8.9 Great

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Keith Thomas

Sir Keith Thomas is a Welsh historian of early modern England whose work combines social, cultural, and intellectual his...

Social Cultural 20TH Century British

8.8 Great

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John H. Elliott

John H. Elliott was a British historian of early modern Europe, with particular attention to Spain, the Spanish monarchy...

20TH Century Comparative British Early Modern

8.8 Great

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Geoffrey Parker

Geoffrey Parker is a British historian whose work centers on early modern Europe, military history, and the Spanish Empi...

Military 20TH Century Early Modern British American

8.7 Great

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Albert Hourani

Albert Hourani was a British-Lebanese historian of the modern Middle East and the Arab world. His scholarship examined p...

Intellectual 20TH Century Middle Eastern Arab

8.6 Great

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Joyce Appleby

Joyce Appleby (1929-2016) was an American historian of the early United States whose work explored republicanism, libera...

American Intellectual 20TH Century Capitalism

8.2 Great

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Lawrence Stone

Lawrence Stone was a British historian associated with the study of early modern England and the development of social h...

Social Family 20TH Century Early Modern

8.1 Great

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Hugh Trevor-Roper

Hugh Trevor-Roper was a British historian whose research covered early modern Europe, British history, and Nazi Germany....

20TH Century British Political Nazi Germany

7.9 Good

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J.H. Plumb

J. H. Plumb was a British historian and professor at the University of Cambridge whose scholarship centered on eighteent...

20TH Century British Political English

7.6 Good

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Daniel Boorstin

Daniel J. Boorstin was an American historian, writer, and the twelfth Librarian of Congress. He wrote widely on American...

American Intellectual Cultural 20TH Century

7.6 Good